Title: PhD Candidate

Department: English

Office: CFT, Office 313
Email: john.j.morrell@vanderbilt.edu

Degrees

• PhD, English -- Vanderbilt University, expected 2010
• M.A., English -- Vanderbilt University, 2005
• B.A., English -- Hamilton College, 2000

Research Area

• 19th - 20th Century American Literature
• Literature and the Environment, Science and Literature
• Ecocriticism, Critical Theory, Hemispheric Studies, Utopian Studies

Current Research

• "The Dialectic of Climate Change: Apocalypse, Utopia, and the Environmental Imagination"

Current Positions

• Graduate Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching

Previous Positions

• Graduate Instructor, English Department (2005-2009)
• Graduate Writing Consultant, Writing Studio (2006-2009)

Professional Societies

• MLA
• Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
• Beat Studies Association (BSA)
• Thoreau Society
• Radical Philosophy Association (RPA)
• International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP)

Professional Honors

• Graduate Teaching Fellowship (Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, 2009-10)
• Center for Ethics Dissertation Writers Fellowship (Vanderbilt, 2008)
• Values and Environment Research Fellowship (Vanderbilt, 2008)
• University Graduate Fellowship (Vanderbilt, 2004 - 2009)

Research Associates

• Food Politics Reading and Working Group
• Reclaiming Citizenship Working Group

Publications

• "Summers in the Skagit: Writing and Rewriting the Rucksack Revolution" (under review)
• "A review of Community Rights and Corporate Responsibility: Canadian Mining and Oil Companies in Latin America." in AmeriQuests vol. 3 no. 1, 2006. (www.ameriquests.org)